🇺🇦 🇵🇱 Ukraine Warns Of Economic Woes Amid Border Protests by Polish Truckers, Farmers
“Blocking transport on the Polish border will have serious social and political consequences for both countries,” Oleksandr Kubrakov, Ukraine’s Interior Minister,
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https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-economic-woes-border-protests-polish-truckers/32826420.html
@Snowshadow my friends at the front-lines can't get military supplies. I'm in the middle of a #Boycott of #Polish products, as everyone should around the world.
@jonn I added it to my OP.
@Snowshadow @jonn - it is about EU farmers and truckers losing their livelihoods to unfair competition. They have been complaining for a long time and Zelensky did not care. Instead the Ukrainian government sued Poland, Hungary, Slovakia in the WTO and put pressure on them through the EU. The result is the rise in anti-Ukrainian, anti-EU sentiment in Poland and anti-Polish sentiment in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the Polish gov. keeps delivering and repairing weapons, Poles keep hosting Ukrainians.
@tom_andraszek @Snowshadow that is a very cool story, Tom.
Since you seem to be in the loop, can you please also tell us something about Rafal Makler, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Robert Winnicki?
Regarding unfair competition: basically you're saying that it's unfair for countries at war to participate in the global economy? Sizzling take, I'll make sure to remind you of that take when the time of #Poland shall come.
I have no idea why I wrote such a long message when "khui budesh, vatnik" would suffice.
@jonn - maybe because I donated the first few hundred dollars to the Ukrainian government account in Australia back in February/March 2022, and have been donating since to various groups and people helping Ukraine?
There are people in Poland who are pro-Russia or anti-Ukraine. That's not a secret. Many bring up Wołyń massacres at every opportunity. They would use an opportunity like this.
@jonn -
I am in the loop. Even though I live in Australia, I have family in Poland, I visit them, I follow events/close to source. Some of my wife's family are farmers in eastern Poland.
There is no free market in agriculture - it would bankrupt small farmers in the EU instantly. Millions of small farms disappeared in the last decade in the EU despite subsidies. Farmers are subsidised in Japan and in the US.
Ukraine is at war, but it does not give it a right to bully or guit trip other people.
@tom_andraszek jokes aside, it's very wholesome of you to do that. We're on the same page in terms of what civilians should do.
Also, I have a deep respect for Polish people and even understanding of, although no respect for, anti-humanist people like you (see my longread).
Boycotting someone or something is not black-and-white. I wasn't drinking my favorite beer while Germany wasn't doing their part, but now I do. It's not like I despised Germans or even German government for the delay, I just don't have much tools to have an impact except for not buying their shit and convincing 10 people to convince 10 people to not buy their shit. Same with Poland now. We're on one side, currently my buddies near the frontlines can't get high-tech stuff because of Polish kremlin actors, so I do what I can to make sure that they do.
